Latest Pennsylvania Headlines
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Pennsylvania Lawmakers Advance Bill to Create Landslide Insurance Program
Jun 28 2024 // A bill to create a state landslide insurance program for homeowners in Pennsylvania has been advanced by a House committee. The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee voted 20-5 to move the bill to the full...
Judge Cuts Bayer $2.25 Billion Roundup Verdict to $400 Million
Jun 5 2024 // A Pennsylvania judge on Tuesday slashed a $2.25 billion U.S. verdict against Bayer to $400 million for a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from exposure to the company’s Roundup weedkiller. A jury in the...
Truck Driver Who Fatally Struck 3 Pennsylvania Highway Workers Fell Asleep at Wheel
May 14 2024 // A truck driver fell asleep at the wheel before striking a construction vehicle and killing three workers on the shoulder of a Pennsylvania highway in April, authorities said Friday. Pennsylvania State Police said the...
Pennsylvania to Ban Driver Cell Phone Use, Require Reporting of Traffic Stop Data
May 13 2024 // Pennsylvania will join the majority of states that ban motorists from handling a cell phone for almost any purpose while driving, as backers of the legislation hope to reduce distracted driving accidents and deaths after...
Vendor That Mishandled Pennsylvania Virus Data to Pay $2.7M in Whistleblower Case
May 9 2024 // A large staffing firm that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the private medical information of about 72,000 residents will pay $2.7 million in a settlement with the Justice Department and a...
Pennsylvania High Court to Decide If Workers’ Compensation Covers CBD Oil
May 3 2024 // A veteran Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorney will soon have a chance to argue before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that his own use of cannabinoid oil (CBD oil) is covered by workers’...
Pennsylvania Court: No Coverage for Mother’s Distress Over Son’s Overdose Death
May 2 2024 // The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that Nationwide Property and Casualty is not obligated to defend its homeowner insureds against a wrongful death claim for emotional and mental distress brought by a mother whose...
Judge Orders Pennsylvania Utility Board to Produce Chocolate Factory Blast Records
Apr 19 2024 // Pennsylvania utility regulators must turn over inspection records to the National Transportation Safety Board as part of the federal agency’s probe into a fatal explosion at a chocolate factory last year, a federal...
Lawyers Want Ohio Residents to Wait for Details of $600M Derailment Settlement
Apr 12 2024 // The lawyers who negotiated a $600 million settlement with Norfolk Southern over that railroad’s disastrous 2023 derailment in Ohio want residents to talk with them before deciding the historic deal isn’t...
Pennsylvania Issues Its ‘Expectations’ for Insurance Carriers Regarding Their Use of AI
Apr 10 2024 // Pennsylvania has issued guidance for insurance companies’ use of artificial intelligence systems (AIS) based on a model adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The Pennsylvania...
DoorDash Launches Benefits Program for Pennsylvania Delivery Drivers
Apr 9 2024 // DoorDash Inc. is paying its delivery couriers in Pennsylvania additional money for a limited time to cover some benefits that are normally reserved for full-time employees. DoorDash will make monthly contributions starting...
East Coast 4.8 Earthquake Causes Disruption But No Injuries or Sweeping Damage
Apr 7 2024 // An unusual East Coast earthquake shook millions of people from New York and Philadelphia skyscrapers to rural New England on Friday, causing no widespread damage but startling an area unaccustomed to temblors. The U.S....
Pennsylvania County Suing Oil Industry Over Climate Change
Apr 2 2024 // A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the public about their role in...
Business Moves
Apr 1 2024 // National Novatae Risk Group, Bretton Woods International Dallas-based Novatae Risk Group is acquiring the Lloyd’s broker Bretton Woods International (BWI) of London. The transaction is subject to applicable...
Automated Braking Would Not Have Prevented Pennsylvania Train Crash
Mar 28 2024 // The collision of three Norfolk Southern trains in Pennsylvania early this month highlights the shortcomings of the automated braking system that was created to prevent such crashes. None of the circumstances the National...
Lawmakers Want Investigations Into Deaths of Older Adults in Abuse or Neglect Cases
Mar 28 2024 // Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania are pushing Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration to do more to investigate the deaths of older adults who are the subject of an abuse or neglect complaint after Pennsylvania...
Investigation Underway Into Cause of Pennsylvania House Fire That Killed Five
Mar 25 2024 // Investigators were searching Thursday for the cause of a fire that tore through a house in the Pittsburgh suburbs, killing a man and four children and spreading to another house before the flames were...
Supreme Court Opinion on Maritime Law Solidifies Insurer’s Choice-of-Law Clause
Mar 18 2024 // A dispute between an insurer and a yacht owner that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court resulted in a decision — the first of its kind on marine insurance in about 70 years — to clarify federal maritime...
Cleanup and Track Repair Underway After Train Collision and Derailment in Pennsylvania
Mar 6 2024 // Norfolk Southern crews and contractors are working on cleanup and track repair after a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend involving three trains that left some railroad cars scattered along a...
Three Trains in Collision and Derailment in Pennsylvania; No Injuries Reported
Mar 4 2024 // Authorities say three trains were involved in a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania on Saturday morning that caused no reported injuries or evacuations but left some railroad cars scattered along a riverbank...
